Saturday, January 31, 2009

Canada

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It was great to be in Canada again (or more specifically, Alberta) to visit the family, despite the economic gloom. Economically things see...

Christmas in January

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Looking back through my blog I realise that it just briefly touched on why I go to Canada in January (and that blog post was 2 years ago). ...
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London

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I always love visiting London but most times I am there in January so it is usually gray, miserable and cold. This time I was a bit better,...
Friday, January 30, 2009

The Return

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Okay, I'm back! Actually I got back a couple of days ago but it takes a while to recover from 25 hours of travel over 10 time zones. I...
Saturday, January 10, 2009

Vacation

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Vacation time again, this time for my annual trip back home to Canada. I fly to London where I am staying with my friend David and his fian...
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More tennis!

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Once again there is more a great tennis in Doha! The Qatar Open has as its big draws Federer, Nadal, Murray and Roddick, and I was fortunat...
Monday, January 05, 2009

Blog Spring Cleaning

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As part of the new year I have decided to do a bit of spring cleaning on the blog. I'm going to start going back through the old posti...
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Saturday, January 03, 2009

Books and History

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Happy New Year everyone! Well after telling people in Qatar I was going to have a mellow New Year's Eve I got an invitation that day fro...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Aoud

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I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. I went to friend's place for a Christmas Eve dinner and then I had a late lunch/early dinner Chr...
Monday, December 22, 2008

Christmas

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Christmas in Qatar does not have quite the excitement that it would in most parts of the world, not least in part because Muslims do not cel...
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Friday, December 19, 2008

National Day

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I forgot to mention that December 18 was also Qatar's National Day so I got the day off work. Celebrating this day as the National Day ...
Thursday, December 18, 2008

Singapore eating

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Okay so how was Singapore? In a word -- delicious. Singapore is what you would call a 3-or-4-day city, not one of those places that could k...
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Monday, December 08, 2008

Eid

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So what has been up this week? Well for starters the Museum of Islamic Art finally opened its doors to the public, after about three years o...

So where are the pictures of the glyphs?

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Once again the Compound computers were crashing out, and work computers block picture sites so hopefully this works . . .
Sunday, November 30, 2008

Rain & Glyphs

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It finally rained! On Friday a few rainclouds went over the country and gave it the first decent rain since January. It was maybe 1 cm max...
Friday, November 28, 2008

End of November updates

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So far the changes I've taken to help heal my knees have been going well. Every day I have been doing my isometric exercises, balance e...
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Monday, November 24, 2008

Hajj

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Last week I saw an ad in the local paper for a lecture on the Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) at the Islamic Cultural Centre. I remember some of...
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Saturday, November 22, 2008

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While all of you up in Canada and Europe sit there shivering in perhaps the latest cold snap I am proud to announce that I have finally turn...
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Health update

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Well I got back from the doctor and, not surprisingly, I need to do more physiotherapy and work harder at this. I explained to him the exer...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Camping Qatari-style

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I was speaking to one of my Qatari colleagues the other day about his plans for the weekend and he said that he was probably going to go cam...
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